Friday, April 23, 2010

Patched Version Of VLC Player Available

VideoLAN project has released a new version of their VLC media player. Version 1.0.6 fixes several vulnerabilities in different media format handling. By exploiting the vulnerabilities an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code in target system.

Affected are VLC Player versions 0.5.0 - 1.0.5. Owners of those versions should update to the 1.0.6 version. Version 1.1.0 (currently in pre-release stage) is not affected by these vulnerabilities.

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